03806oam 22006014a 450 991015472590332120170509103025.00-8232-7227-30-8232-7228-1(CKB)3710000000880745(MiAaPQ)EBC4681087(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660399(OCoLC)966458148(MdBmJHUP)muse52668(EXLCZ)99371000000088074520160930e20162017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCorporate RomanticismLiberalism, Justice, and the Novel /Daniel M. StoutFirst edition.Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2016Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©20161 online resource (264 pages)Lit ZIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.0-8232-7223-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.Introduction : personification and its discontents -- 1. The pursuit of guilty things : corporate actors, collective actions, and romantic abstraction -- 2. The one and the manor : on being, doing, and deserving in Mansfield Park -- 3. Castes of exception : tradition and the public sphere in The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner -- 4. Nothing personal : the decapitations of character in A tale of two cities -- 5. Not world enough : easement, externality, and the edges of justice (Caleb Williams) -- Epilogue : everything counts (Frankenstein).Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments-the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action-undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism's ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.Lit z.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiberalism in literatureJuristic personsIndividualism in literatureCorporations in literatureElectronic books. English literatureHistory and criticism.Liberalism in literature.Juristic personsIndividualism in literature.Corporations in literature.823.809Stout Daniel144005MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910154725903321Corporate romanticism2614614UNINA